Honored Military Alumni

Bret D. Shepherd
Class of 1984
Air Force, 20+ Years
MSgt (RET) Bret Shepherd servd 21 years in the United States Air Force and retired in 2005. Bret's assignments included tours at Davis Monthan Air Force Base (AFB) Arizona, Clark Air Base Republic of the Philippines, Lowry AFB Colorado, McGuire AFB New Jersey, and NATO assignments in Naples Italy. Bret also served two short tours in Pristina Kosovo. During his time he held to Air Force specialties one with Security Police and the other as Communications operator. He finished his career as the Network Systems Administrator for the Southern Region Joint Operations Intelligence Cell in Naples Italy.

School News

Our Mendel High School military alumni are some of the most outstanding people we know and this page recognizes them and everything they have done! Not everyone gets to come home for the holidays and we want our Mendel High School Military to know that they are loved and appreciated. All of us in Chicago are proud of our military alumni and want to thank them for risking their lives to protect our country!